Category Archives: On The Ground

Tom Palmer and the Morality of Capitalism at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Last week, Cato senior fellow and Atlas Economic Research Foundation executive Vice President, Dr. Tom Palmer visited the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to provide a moral defense for free market capitalism. The event, hosted by the Young Americans … Continue reading

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GOProud Breakout Sessions at ISFLC

Students For Liberty is pleased to announce that GOProud, a nationwide organization dedicated to limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and equality under the law, will be hosting two breakout sessions at this year’s International Students For Liberty Conference. The session … Continue reading

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Spring Semester Action Plan for Your Campus!

Students For Liberty Executive Board Member Clint Townsend has put together this comprehensive spring semester action plan. This list of suggestions will provide you with a detailed starting point to begin organizing for liberty all spring long!  Leading a successful … Continue reading

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SFL’s Own Pericles Niarchos Speaks to MTV News

Students For Liberty Executive Board member Pericles Niarchos has spent the past week traveling across New Hampshire in support of Dr. Ron Paul. In between street outreach, attending pro-liberty rallies, and trying to get even the tiniest bit of sleep, Pericles … Continue reading

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Crony Capitalism = Phony Capitalism!

“I feel like if people don’t know that condoms have expiration dates, they probably don’t know that crony capitalism is bad!” This somewhat pessimistic picture of the average American University student was offered up during a tabling event this past … Continue reading

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Spreading Liberty at Occupy Phoenix

For the past few weeks, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been hotly debated among libertarians. Should we participate? Are the protesters against a free market? What is the purpose of the movement? Does it even have one? This debate … Continue reading

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Get It Out in the Open: Why Libertarians Should Embrace Civil Disobedience

One of my goals going into this semester was to engage in a good deal more civil disobedience. Now, I certainly don’t think that any activism of this sort is good for its own sake. Like carrots and exercise, I … Continue reading

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How To Organize a FIRE OCR Event on Your Campus

Last month, I wrote about the Office for Civil Rights’ assault on due process rights and common sense.  Here’s how your campus group can help spread the word. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is leading the charge … Continue reading

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You Can Cut Paper, But You Can’t Cut Freedom

Last week, a professor at Sam Houston State University took a box cutter and cut out a message criticizing Obama from a Free Speech Wall, incarnating the very problem the wall was trying to address: freedom of speech is literally … Continue reading

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Campus Coordinator Politically Provokes UC Berkeley

Dear Friends of Freedom, As an SFL Campus Coordinator, I am ecstatic to announce that I have recently acquired a new gig to promote liberty– and at the most unlikeliest of places! Starting today, I am now the political columnist … Continue reading

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